Experience

Journeyman Forecaster, National Weather Service, WFO Raleigh (September, 2014 – present)

Supervisor:

  • Jason Franklin (June 2016 – Present)
  • Darin Figurskey (September 2014 – December 2015)
    • Hours per week: 40
    • Series: 1340 Pay Plan: GS Grade: 12
  • Journeyman Forecaster (September, 2014 – present)
  • Duties included issuing convective and other short fuse warnings, preparing public, aviation, fire weather, hydrologic forecasts, climate data collection and data quality assessment.
  • Assessed severe weather warning, forecast, and service products for quality control and dissemination.
  • Assisted with meteorological or hydrologic public awareness preparedness programs designed to help protect life and property.
  • Communicated technical meteorological and hydrologic information into non-technical terms for a variety of external partners and end users.

 

Meteorologist Intern, National Weather Service, WFO Raleigh (January, 2009 – September, 2014)

Supervisor: Darin Figurskey

  • Hours per week: 40
  • Series: 1340 Pay Plan: GS Grade: 11
  • Intern Forecaster (January, 2009 – present)
  • Duties included preparing public, aviation, fire weather, hydrologic forecasts, climate data collection and data quality assessment.
  • Awarded a Quality Step Increase (QSI) for breadth of work over several years.
  • Temporarily promoted to GS-12 Journeyman Forecaster position for 2 out of every 6 pay periods back dated to September, 2012.

 

Student Intern National Weather Service, WFO Honolulu / Central Pacific Hurricane Center (May, 2005 – October, 2008)

  • Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Student Intern
    • Managed a project organizing and digitizing the CPHC tropical cyclone database.
    • Shadowed forecasters and learned WFO structure including Marine desk.
    • Attended CPHC tropical training.
    • Helped organize and give tours of the WFO to local elementary schools.

 

Research Assistant University of Hawai’i at Manoa (August, 2004 – November, 2008)

  • Graduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. Steven Businger)
  • Research assistant in the Storm Energetics and Evolution Research Group.
  • Research topics included hurricane boundary layer structure, and SMART Balloons.
  • In charge of forecasting for SMART Balloon launches during RAINEX project in Miami, FL during the 2005 hurricane season.
  • Thesis entitled “Helical Rolls in the Typhoon Boundary Layer.”
  • Thesis work was reformatted and published in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research.
  • Helped design curriculum for a new meteorology course teaching FORTRAN and MATLAB in a meteorological context. Also assisted in teaching the MATLAB portion of the class.
  • Team leader and administrator for UH’s forecasting team that competed in WxChallenge, a national collegiate weather forecasting contest run by the University of Oklahoma.

 

Research Assistant University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (October, 2001 – May, 2004)

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. Shuyi Chen)
  • Used MM5 model to analyze sea breeze circulation in South Florida.
  • Participated in NASA’s CRYSTAL-FACE experiment in July 2002 which analyzed aircraft observations in the near thunderstorm environment. Was primary forecaster for mission and flight planning.
  • Participated in National Center for Atmospheric Research’s second annual Youth Leadership Workshop.
  • Worked with Dr. Chris Landsea on the re-analysis of the Atlantic Hurricane Database.
  • Vice President and co-founder of the University of Miami Atmospheric Sciences Club. This club has evolved into UM’s student chapter of the American Meteorological Society.